On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 03:46:09PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Hello there, > (please CC me on replies, I'm not on these lists) > > (live from the d-i/debian-cd BoF) > > as some of you likely remember, win32-loader is shipped on d-i and debian-cd > images, and is added in autorun.inf for automated launch on Windows machines, > when USB/CDs are plugged in. What it does is allow a machine booted in > Windows > to download a d-i image, put a grub image and d-i in C:/debian-installer, and > fiddle with the (old?) Windows bootloader to allow selection of d-i upon > reboot. It either works from the image, or downloading stuff from internet. > > I haven't checked (as I don't have access to Windows machines...), but I'm > quite confident that the Windows Bootloader fiddling is quite unlikely to > work > on modern (Secure Boot ?) machines. > > That brings two sides of the question: > * should it still be shipped on amd64 netinsts, CD's, other images? > * should it still be offered on the mirrors ? > on https://deb.debian.org/debian/tools/win32-loader/stable/ > (where it lands via dak's byhand handling upon uploads; but is manually > moved by ftp-master on migrations and release days) > > (I orphaned win32-loader back in September, and it still doesn't have an > official maintainer; but I'd be happy to work towards ditching it away :-P) > > Best, > OdyX
Also from the Debconf session - we recommend Rufus - lets just do that and drop win32-loader? All the very best, as ever, Andy C.